Joseph Wakelee-Lynch, Author at LMU Magazine

Articles by Author

First Person

Crossing Over

Matthew Campanella ’13 is an investigative reporter on “The Real Death Valley,” an immigration documentary hosted by reporter John Carlos Frey for The Weather Channel. The film focuses on Central Americans who make their way on a dangerous path through Brooks County, Texas, a throughway to U.S. cities to the north. While filming, Campanella and Frey also attempted the 40-mile sojourn. We asked Campanella to describe what he experienced while walking through Texas’ death valley.

Field Work

Shoe Designer Henri Lepore Dessert ’11

Henri Lepore Dessert, who divides his time between the United States and Milan, works on every step in the shoe-making process, from the first sketches to the selection of materials and oversight of the hand-made creation of the shoes themselves.

Canon

Fable

On a bright afternoon in 1975, English major Bruce McBirney and a motley, clever cast staged a standard text near Foley Pond: Aesop’s fable “The North Wind and the Sun.” Now, years later, McBirney, a poet, has immortalized that spring spectacle.

The Giveback

The Romance of Education

Love Story

Bonding in Fire and Snow

Rod Quartararo ’73 and Jean Sever ’73 — you could say their bond was forged in fire.

Letter From L.A.

Rite Now

Commencement is a rare moment that is both end and beginning. The day seems stretched by its gravity, its hours elongated by ceremony. But the rite, a tenuous instant in time, passes. It doesn’t last long.

From the Desk Of

Charles Higgins

Charles Higgins teaches in the Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems in the College of Business Administration and has twice won Faculty Member of the Year awards. He is an investment practitioner and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an academic honor society in the field of business. Higgins also has taught at Claremont Graduate School, the University of Redlands and Mount St. Mary’s College. Higgins’ research interests deal with the term structure of interest rates from mathematical and computational aspects of investing to the utilization of derivative instruments. He is also interested in linguistics and foreign languages, science, travel and railroading.

First Person

Freedom Restored: Franky Carrillo Jr.’s Day in Court

In 2011, after 35 years as a lawyer, I was graced to witness an extraordinary occasion of restorative justice that took place in a Compton courtroom.

Chat

JVC or Start My Career?

Chat is an LMU Magazine feature that links current students with alumni by using social media to get alumni answers to student questions.

Conversations

A Conversation with Jennifer Ramos

Jennifer Ramos, associate professor of political science, studies the causes and consequences of political change, U.S. public opinion and foreign policy, drone warfare, and religion and foreign policy preferences. She is the author of “Changing Norms Through Actions: The Evolution of Sovereignty” and teaches in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. Ramos was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.